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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:08:40 +0200
From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom
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> I have VirtualBox 4.2.6_OSE r82870.  I assume the OSE is OpenSuSE
> Edition. I think I can get some help installing an older
> version(4.1.24) on the OpenSuse forums.

The 4.2 branch of VirtualBox was known to have a bug with real mode
which prevented to run Plan 9 (and QNX) successfully. This bug was
fixed in VirtualBox 4.2.14, as you can see in the changelog.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

> BIOS: don't use the ENTER / LEAVE instructions in the BIOS
> as these don't work in the real mode as set up by certain
> guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)

If you want to run Plan 9 on VirtualBox, you have to use either
the 4.1 branch (for example 4.1.26) or 4.2.14 and later.

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David du Colombier